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Shades of Grey in Wide Sargasso Sea
- Some believe the world is black and white but there isn’t always a clear person to blame for heartbreak or hardship. It is easier to blame something on one person but it’s not always realistic. Rhys portrays this “grey world” theme in Wide Sargasso Sea with her main characters: Rochester and Antoinette. She uses two unique connections to show how the two are intertwined: the first by the racism that they both experience and the second by their own actions/rationalizations that hurt each other portrayed through Rhys’ use of alternation perspectives.... [tags: Wide Sargasso Sea Essays]

Racial Tensions in Wide Sargasso Sea
- Racial tension is a major theme in “Wide Sargasso Sea”, with the mix of whites and blacks and white/blacks in the novel creating a cut-throat atmosphere which creates a hazardous place for Jamaica’s denizens. Many racial situations occur between whites and blacks, which Americans are use to due to the dangerous troubles between blacks and whites in the 1950s with a clear enemy: the whites. But Rhys tackles a more important point: an overall racial hostility between everybody living in Jamaica during the novels time period with no one to blame.... [tags: Wide Sargasso Sea Essays]

The Sargasso Sea as an Underlying Metaphor in Wide Sargasso Sea
- The Sargasso Sea as an Underlying Metaphor in Wide Sargasso Sea Why did Jean Rhys name her novel about the Creole madwoman in the attic from Jane Eyre after a mysterious body of water in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. As there is no mention made of the Sargasso Sea in the novel itself, one might wonder why she chose to title her novel after it. In a 1958 letter to a friend and colleague, she describes her changing titles for the novel: “I have no title yet. ‘The First Mrs. Rochester’ is not right.... [tags: Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys]:: 6 Works Cited

Comparing Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre
- Authors, Jean Rhys and Charlotte Bronte constructed their novels in completely different time periods and came from different influences in writing. Jean Rhys’s fiction book, Wide Sargasso Sea is an interesting relation to Jane Eyre. The female character of Jane Eyre forms into a furiously, passionate, independent young woman. The female character of Jean Rhys’s illustration is a character that Jane will know further on as Rochester’s crazy wife who is bolted in an attic. Jean Rhys further studies this character, where as Charlotte Bronte approved that it was left explained (Thorpe 175).... [tags: Wide Sargasso Sea, Jane Eyre]:: 6 Works Cited

The Impact of Families Upon The Watchmen's Rorschach and Wide Sargasso Sea's Antoinette
- The manner in which an individual is raised can impact their lives forever. This idea is proven to be true with two characters from the works that were studied this semester. Although they come from completely different worlds, the similarities between these two characters and the manner in which they face the world can be associated with the relationships they had with their families. These two characters are Walter “Rorschach” Kovacs, from Alan Moore's graphic novel which is called Watchmen, and Antoinette, from Jean Rhys' novel which is called Wide Sargasso Sea.... [tags: The Watchmen, Wide Sargasso Sea]:: 2 Works Cited

Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
- Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea has developed a character for the depth of time. Antoinette's childhood story of outmost unhappiness, contrasted with her attempt at love, and finally the arrival to her concluded state depicts the single condemnation of her soul. Misguided and unloved, Antoinette is forced to raise herself in a world of fear and hatred. As a young woman, her only happiness is found with nature, her place of peace in the world. Yet when her chance at love arises, Antoinette challenges the very destination of her life and hopes to undo her already doomed demise.... [tags: Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys]

The Importance of Truth in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
- The Importance of Truth in Wide Sargasso Sea In Wide Sargasso Sea " Rhys presents a white Creole family living in a Caribbean Island (Jamaica), which is a lush and insecure world for them, after the liberation of the slaves. The husband had once been a slaveholder, the mother is a confused and crazy lady and Antoinette, the daughter, is a child in an atmosphere of fear, recrimination and bitter anger. She becomes increasingly isolated-this isolation is broken by her scheming stepbrother, who signs Antoinette's inheritance over to the naive Mr.... [tags: Wide Sargasso Sea Essays]:: 1 Works Cited

Colonising Within the Marriage in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
- Colonising Within the Marriage in Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys' complex text, Wide Sargasso Sea, came about as an attempt to re-invent an identity for Rochester's mad wife, Bertha Mason, in Jane Eyre, as Rhys felt that Bronte had totally misrepresented Creole women and the West Indies: 'why should she think Creole women are lunatics and all that. What a shame to make Rochester's wife, Bertha, the awful madwoman, and I immediately thought I'd write a story as it might really have been.' (Jean Rhys: the West Indian Novels, p144). It is clear that Rhys wanted to reclaim a voice and a subjectivity for Bertha, the silenced Creole, and to subvert the assumptions made by the Victoria... [tags: Wide Sargasso Sea Essays]:: 3 Works Cited

The Tragedy of Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
- The Tragedy of Wide Sargasso Sea In Jean Rhys' novel Wide Sargasso Sea, whether Antoinette Cosway really goes mad in the end is debatable. Nevertheless, it is clear that her life is tragic. The tragedy comes from her numerous pursuits for love and a sense of belonging, and her failure at each and every one of these attempts. As a child Antoinette, is deprived of parental love. Her father is a drunkard and has many mistresses and illegitimate children. According to Daniel Cosway's account, old Cosway is cruel to his own son.... [tags: Wide Sargasso Sea Essays]:: 1 Works Cited

The Theme of Misunderstanding in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
- The Theme of Misunderstanding in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea In both classical novels Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte a Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys the theme of misunderstanding is represented very widely. Both Victorian era dramatical romantic fictions have some impact in them from their respective authors. Bronte's lonliness is transformed into Jane Eyre's Character whom mostly all characters in the novel misunderstand her until they truly get to recognize her which is towards the end of the novel.... [tags: Literature Analysis, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea]

Cruelty and Insanity in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Cruelty and Insanity in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea provides unique insight into the gradual deterioration of the human mind and spirit. On examining Antoinette and her mother Annette, the reader gains a new perspective of insanity. One realizes that these two women are mentally perturbed as a result of numerous external factors that are beyond their control. The cruelty of life and people drive Annette and her daughter to lunacy. Neither mother nor daughter have a genetic predisposition to madness, and their downfall is an inevitable result of the actions of those around them and the unbearable nature of their living situation.... [tags: Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys Essays]:: 1 Works Cited

Comparing Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Comparing Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte In the novels Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, the theme of loss can be viewed as an umbrella that encompasses the absence of independence, society or community, love, and order in the lives of the two protagonists. They deal with their hardships in diverse ways. However, they both find ways to triumph over their losses and regain their independence. The women in both novels endure a loss of personal freedom, both mental, and physical.... [tags: Wide Sargasso Sea Jane Eyre Essays]:: 2 Works Cited

Jean Rhys' Use of Conflicting Narratives of Antoinette and Rochester in Wide Sargasso Sea
- Jean Rhys' Use of Conflicting Narratives of Antoinette and Rochester in "Wide Sargasso Sea" There are many techniques Jean Rhys uses to bring across the point that the narrators are unreliable and the truth twisted, it is an interesting and effective idea as it makes the reader feel confused on who to trust and really involves them in the book, they become party to the secrets. Rhys’ book is so complex as it is obviously linked to the Classic book- ‘Jane Eyre’; this is classic English literature and therefore is always in our minds during WSS.... [tags: Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys Essays]

The Wide Sargasso Sea and Race
- I read an interesting fact recently online; it said that if one ever feels alone to remember that at any given point that they are in proximity to at least ten ghosts and their butts. What this has to do with Wide Sargasso Sea and the issue of race within it. Absolutely nothing; just thought it would be nice to know given it is Halloween. If one feels inclined, they can also give love to those ghosts by blowing kisses to them, just because they are dead does not mean they do not enjoy a smooch. Wide Sargasso Sea is unique from Jane Eyre and Mansfield Park in that the issue of race plays a huge part in how the characters themselves relate to themselves and their place within their society.... [tags: Jane Eyrie, Mansfield Park]:: 1 Works Cited

The Emotional Journey in Wide Sargasso Sea
- ... (II.2.26),” makes one feel compelled to repeat here that maybe Rochester isn't such a terrible guy. In an honorable mood, Rochester touches on the one thing that Antoinette and he both need if their marriage is to survive: mutual trust. Of course, the rest of the novel is just a long series of betrayals. Hate, fear, and jealousy are all portrayed throughout the novel. The quote, “I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself.... [tags: love, betrayal, sexual]:: 1 Works Cited

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- ... Their downfalls are created by the catastrophic conflicts with each other and the environment around them. It becomes more clear what Jean Rhys intends; she relates the text to present-day social issues that a reader faces in their every-day lives through analyzing Rochester, Antoinette and the themes in the novel. When closely looking at their relationship alone, it becomes more evident of Rochester’s dominance over Antoinette. He calls Antoinette “Bertha,” and she is not pleased as she explains: “Bertha is not my name.... [tags: Rochester, Antoinette, character analysis]

Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
- Wide Sargasso Sea The Creoles in Wide Sargasso Sea are outcasts. They live with a divided identity and distance from the world. After the death of Antoinette’s father their behavior nearly causes their entire world to crumble. The family suffers greatly due to their distance from the rest of the world. The purpose of this paper is to show you the family’s divided identities and how it effects their everyday life, along with the consequences that follow. Antoinette, the main character and the daughter of ex-slave owners, is a far cry from rational and self-restrained.... [tags: literary analysis]:: 4 Works Cited

Themes in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Themes in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys The main themes in Wide Sargasso Sea are slavery and entrapment, the complexity of racial identity and womanhood or feminism. In all of these themes the main character who projects them are Antoinette and Christophine. The theme slavery and entrapment is based on the ex- slaves who worked on the sugar plantations of wealthy Creoles figure prominently in Part One of the novel, which is set in the West Indies in the early nineteenth century. Although the Emancipation Act has freed the slaves by the time of Antoinette's childhood, compensation has not been granted to the island's black population, breeding hostility and resentment between servants and t... [tags: Wide Sargasso Jean Rhys Slavery Essays]

Fire in Hean Rhy´s Wide Sargasso Sea
- ... Antoinette formed a relation to it due to its association to trauma. Subconsciously Antoinette was not able to cope with her past traumatic experience. This is expressed at the end of the novel due to the burning of Rochester's house in England. Thus suporting the Rhys’ theme that unless people who suffer trauma eventually learn to cope with it, it will build psychologically and will eventually be released harmfully. Self evaluation Name:__________________________________ Wide Sargasso Sea Essay—Draft 1 Self-Evaluation... [tags: traits, trauma, psychologically, harmfully]

The Subversion of Beauty in Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
- “Jamaica is beautiful. Jamaica is too beautiful” (Black). Throughout the semester, we have read multiple novels that describe an irresistible beauty found in the Caribbean: a beauty that conjures, entices, threatens, and ruins. This beauty has caused foreigners to capture, govern, fight for, and tour these islands for centuries. While the Caribbean may be a beautiful place geographically, authors have used this term differently in their literature. My argument in this paper is two-fold: I believe that Jean Rhys writes about this beauty attributed to the Caribbean as a rejection of European influence on the Caribbean and a declaration of the Caribbean’s independence over colonialism, and that... [tags: Caribbean identity]:: 2 Works Cited

Identity Crisis in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- ... Next, Antoinette present a major aspect of her character where she notice conflicting social messages regarding her overall identity. In her own home land Antoinette and her family received black slander such as, “white cockroaches” and “white niggers”, and violence where the blacks burn down Coulubri estate. “It was a song about a white cockroach. That’s me. That’s what they call all of us who were here before their own people in Africa sold them to the slave traders. And I’ve heard English women call us white niggers.... [tags: caribbean, slave, suicide]:: 1 Works Cited

Rochester in Duigan´s Wide Sargasso Sea
- John Duigan’s film, Wide Sargasso Sea, a movie adaptation of the Jean Rhys novel superficially contains steamy sex scenes, a troubled romance, and conflicting cultures. However, if one looks beyond initial appearances, one can see an interesting character development that importantly directs the story. Duigan manages to highlight this character quite well. He portrayed him well enough that I begin to notice a development that otherwise I would have not seen. It is easy to get lost in this story by looking only at the character of Antoinette because it is she that gets the most focus.... [tags: manhood, control, John Duigan, Jean Rhys]:: 6 Works Cited

Wide Sargasso Sea
- Wide Sargasso Sea Places take on a symbolic significance in Wide Sargasso Sea. Discuss the way in which Jean Rhys uses different locations in the narrative. Place in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' seems to be used to convey Antoinette's frame of mind at different times in her life. Wally Look Lai believes that "The West Indian setting...is central to the novel...(and) the theme of rejected womanhood is utilized symbolically in order to make an artistic statement about West Indian society and about an aspect of the West Indian experience".... [tags: English Literature Jean Rhys Location Essays]

Wide Sargasso Sea and The Color Purple
- Problems, along with misery, become apart of life whether you’re willing to accept it or not. For those who have accepted such troubles, have also learned to cope with it one way or another. Antoinette’s character in “Wide Sargasso Sea” and Celie’s character in “The Color Purple” have both experienced problems with depression, loneliness, violence, inferiority, racism, and self-identity. It is important for such characters as Antoinette and Celie to express their emotions and have a method of working out there issues.... [tags: essays research papers]

Postcolonial Discourse in Wide Sargasso Sea
- Postcolonial Discourse in Wide Sargasso Sea In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys confronts the possibility of another side to Jane Eyre. The story of Bertha, the first Mrs Rochester, Wide Sargasso Sea is not only a brilliant deconstruction of Brontë's legacy, but is also a damning history of colonialism in the Caribbean. The story is set just after the emancipation of the slaves, in that uneasy time when racial relations in the Caribbean were at their most strained. Antoinette (Rhys renames her and has Rochester impose the name of Bertha on her when their relationship dissolves) is descended from the plantation owners, and her father has had many children by negro women.... [tags: Essays Papers]

Fire´s Symbolism in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre depicts the passionate love Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester have for each other, and as Bertha Mason stands in the way of the happiness of Brontë's heroine, the reader sees Mason as little more than a villainous demon and a raving lunatic. Jean Rhys' serves as Mason's defendant, as the author's 1966 novella Wide Sargasso Sea, a prequel to Jane Eyre, seeks to explore and explain Bertha's (or Antoinette Cosway's) descent into madness. Rhys rejects the notion that Antoinette has been born into a family of lunatics and is therefore destined to become one herself.... [tags: Jamaica, Slaves, Madness]:: 1 Works Cited

Antoinette’s Search for Home in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
- Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) presents some of the complicated issues of postcolonial Caribbean society. Rhys’ protagonist, Antoinette Cosway, a white Creole in Jamaica, suffers racial antagonism, sexual exploitation and male suppression. She is a victim of a system, which not only dispossessed her from her class but also deprived her as an individual of any means of meaningful, independent survival and significance. Postcolonial Caribbean society is not able to address and enhance the expectations of the colonized people after its emancipation but lingers on and sustains in the older residues of colonial project.... [tags: caribbean, jamaican society,sexual exploitation]:: 14 Works Cited

Heart of Darkness and Wide Sargasso Sea: Depiction and Effect Due to Colonization
- Heart of Darkness and Wide Sargasso Sea: Depiction and Effect Due to Colonization Both Heart of Darkness and Wide Sargasso Sea deal with Englishmen, Charles Marlow and Mr. Rochester, who are placed in unfamiliar and different environments than accustomed to. These two characters not only deal with their own personal struggles, but are connected to the struggles of people close to them (namely Kurtz and Antoinette).Joseph Conrad and Jean Rhys attribute these hardships to the effects of colonialism.... [tags: Literary Analysis ]:: 6 Works Cited

Use of Point of View in Bronte's Jane Eyre and Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
- Both Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea utilize point of view to reflect meaning within the texts. Charlotte Bronte chose to stick with one narrator in Jane Eyre and chronicled her journey to self discover and finding the love she desired for much of her life. On the flip side, Jean Rhys switched perspectives multiple times in Wide Sargasso Sea but has a similar story of a woman and her struggle to find herself and her yearning to be loved. Both authors created masterful pieces that transcend generations in their messages and themes, but they went about them in different ways, creating unique works of art.... [tags: narrator, perspective, oppression]:: 2 Works Cited

Review of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- ... And the woman is a stranger." He sees Antoinette as a wild Creole girl who is not like English girls. She is wild just like the place she comes from. He is not used to anyone other than English people. The theme of race relations plays its part in driving a divide between the two. From the very start of their marriage, Rochester hears rumours from all of the locals about his new wife. "Curiosity. Pity. Ridicule. But why should they pity me. I who have done so well for myself?" Amidst all of the gossip he hears that madness runs in her family.... [tags: Marriage, Madness, Relationship]

The Thematic Significance Of The Floral Images In Wide Sargasso Sea.
- Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched."(p.16).... [tags: essays research papers]

Comparing Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
- Comparing Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys obviously had Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre in mind while writing Wide Sargasso Sea. Each novel contains events that echo other events or themes in the other. The destruction of Coulibri at the beginning of Wide Sargasso Sea reminds the reader of the fire at Thornfield towards the end of Jane Eyre. While each scene refers to events in its own book and clarifies events in its companion, one cannot conclude that Rhys simply reconstructed Thornfield's fall in Coulibri's.... [tags: comparison compare contrast essays]:: 4 Works Cited

A Comparison of Love in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
- Love in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea In the passages presented below, both narrators are soliciting affection and love. For Jane, in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, her mother figure, Aunt Reed, shows absolutely no affection towards her niece. Coldly, Ms. Reed regards Jane only as a bothersome child she was left to raise. Similarly, Antoinette, in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, is raised disregarded and unloved by her mother Annette. Although shunned, Jane and Antoinette both have the passion and willingness to love.... [tags: comparison compare contrast essays]:: 4 Works Cited

Living through the Narrative: Antoinette’s Search for Herself in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
- ... (81) Moreover, Wide Sargasso Sea presents a counter discursive encounter to Jane Eyre’s hegemonic perspectives on a Caribbean creole and sheds light on the hidden spaces of a marginalized woman, which are far beyond the domain of western discourses of black/white, colonizer/colonized binary categories. Antoinette’s own society considers her as a white cockroach. Her hope for a better life with a respectful recognition of her identity is continuously challenged. Rochester does not consider her worth of any respect, “I would touch her face gently and touch her tears.... [tags: identity, colonial, race]

Wide Sargasso Sea Revisited: Elizabeth Nunez’s Bruised Hibiscus and Men Women Business
- Elizabeth Nunez writes Bruised Hibiscus (2000) offering some of the most complicated issues of female identity, oppression and quest for liberation in male centered postcolonial Caribbean society with strong resonances to Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). Nunez’s central characters Zuela and Rosa Appleton undergo a series of annihilation of their identities and exploitation and oppression from their husbands. By situating Rosa in a similar position as of Antoinette Cosway in Wide Sargasso Sea, Nunez creates yet another story of a Caribbean creole who suffers denial and becomes a victim of male-centred society ending up her life in complete doom and negation without any hope of autonomy an... [tags: Literary Analysis]:: 6 Works Cited

Being the Meat in the Sandwich: Implications of the double colonisation of empire and patriarchy by the female characters in Wide Sargasso Sea
- One of the many ways that postcolonial literature accomplishes the task of challenging the hegemony of western imperialism is through the use of a ‘canonical counter-discourse,’ a strategy whereby ‘a post-colonial writer takes up a character or characters, or the basic assumptions of a canonical text [where a colonialist discourse is developed directly or indirectly], and unveils [its colonialist] assumptions, subverting the text for post-colonial purposes’. (Tiffin, 1987) Such a revolutionary literary project is evidently realised in Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, a prequel that ‘writes back the centre’ of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847).... [tags: Book Analysis, Colonialism, Oppression of Women]:: 5 Works Cited

Contrasting Gender Differences in in Medea versus Wide Sargasso Sea
- Gender Differences in in Medea versus Wide Sargasso Sea Stereotypical attributes traditionally associated with women, such as having a propensity to madness, or being irrational, frivolous, dependent, decorative, subordinate, scheming, manipulative, weak, jealous, gossiping, vulnerable and deceitful were common in the times relevant to both works, i.e. Ancient Greece and in the 19th and early 20th Century. Masculine attributes in Euripides' time were more along the lines of being valiant, heroic, noble, dominant (over women,) politically powerful, assertive, and competitive.... [tags: Gender Sex Masculine Feminine Euripides Rhys]:: 4 Works Cited

Charlotte Bronte's Jane eyre and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea
- Charlotte Bronte's Jane eyre and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea The Sargasso Sea is a relatively still sea, lying within the south-west zone of the North Atlantic Ocean, at the centre of a swirl of warm ocean currents. Metaphorically, for Jean Rhys, it represented an area of calm, within the wide division between England and the West Indies. Within such an area, a sense of stability, permanence and identity may be attained, despite the powerful, whirling currents which surround it. But outside of this ?sea?, one may be destabilised, drawn away by these outside forces, into the vast expanse of ?ocean.... [tags: Compare Contrast Bronte Rhys Essays]:: 8 Works Cited

A Comparison of God and Religion in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
- God and Religion in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea Jane Eyre, from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and Antoinette Mason, from Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, both depict very different creeds. While Bronte created Jane with a Christian background, Rhys has birthed Antoinette into a more primitive, confused faith. Analyzing each writer's description of the red room will reveal the religious nature of their characters. In both texts, the rooms are symbolic of church. As Jane is sent to the bedroom of her dead uncle, Bronte relates it to a place of worship.... [tags: comparison compare contrast essays]:: 4 Works Cited

Divisions Between Women in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
- Divisions between Women in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea In Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, a sea of “differences” engulfs the women, stirring up prejudice and animosity. Instead of perceiving how much they are alike, these women allow the water to destroy the bridges between them. They are envious of each other’s wealth, leery of each other’s premature aging, and unforgiving towards those who do not “belong” to their ethnic groups. Differences in economics, age, and nationality among the women cause misunderstandings and divisions between them.... [tags: Experience of Womanhood]:: 1 Works Cited

Essay on Responding to Pain in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
- Responding to Pain in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea In both Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea, the main characters Jane and Antoinette are faced with hardships that affect each of them in different ways. In the passages below, the authors Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys illustrate that Jane and Antoinette grew fond of inanimate objects in response to the hurt that they had suffered in life. Although Jane and Antoinette appear to have come from painful backgrounds, each deals with her pain in a different manner, and therefore each leads a very different life into adulthood.... [tags: comparison compare contrast essays]:: 4 Works Cited

Fire Causes Mental Illness in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
- Almost anyone that has had the misfortune of enduring an early childhood traumatic experience will readily admit that it has had lasting effects on his life. A traumatic occurrence at an early time in one's life will not only change the person's way of thinking, but it will also alter the relationships that this person has with certain people, places, or things. Normally comfortable settings will suddenly become extremely uncomfortable. People that the child was once at great ease with unexpectedly are transformed into completely different people in the child's eyes.... [tags: American Literature]

Rochester's Personal Journey
- Eroticism, romance, and a steamy landscape is at the forefront in John Duigan’s movie adaptation of the Jean Rhys novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. Behind these themes exists a power struggle between two of the main characters and their dependence on one another. Antoinette Cosway and arranged English spouse, Edward Rochester, begin their marriage and lives together. In this arrangement, initial lust and interest between the two soon begins to crumble with the introduction of revealed secrets and fears.... [tags: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea]

Creole as a Third Space in Jean Rhys’ Novel
- Jean Rhys writes Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) as a prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre (1847) in order to give life to Bertha Mason, a Jamaican creole who is locked in the attic as a madwoman by her English husband, Rochester. Rhys thinks that Bertha is completely undermined and negated in Bronte’s novel. Bronte’s silences over Bertha’s identity and history enforce Rhys to break the unspoken and deliberately neglected white creole’s identity; and give her a voice that humanizes this supposedly inferior creole, and validates her quest for identity and belonging while also challenging Western hegemonic expectations and conditions.... [tags: jean rhys, jean eyre, wide sargasso sea]:: 11 Works Cited

Victorian Domestic Architecture and the Implications of the Sequestered Private Spaces
- Bertha Mason is the ghost that haunts Thornfield at night. When the sun goes down and the house falls asleep, she rises to explore the house that she is locked within, and yet outside of, by daylight. She roams the corridors, peeping into rooms to take a whiff of the domestic life that she is shunned from. She exists on the threshold of sanity, domesticity, even personhood. This is a character that is simultaneously locked inside of the walls of the mansion and discounted from the everyday domestic life of the household.... [tags: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys]:: 3 Works Cited

Revision of Master Narratives within Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
- To be able to discuss adequately how the master narratives of Bronte and Rhys’ time are revised, one must first understand what those master narratives were and what the social mood of the time was. From there one will be able to discuss how they were revised, and if in fact they were revised at all. Bronte is known as one of the first revolutionary and challenging authoress’ with her text Jane Eyre. The society of her time was male dominated, women were marginally cast aside and treated as trophies for their male counterparts.... [tags: essays research papers]

Mr. Rochester versus The Man
- Mr. Rochester vs. The Man Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte and Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys are novels with an obvious connection, however, this connection is not definite one. The main male character’s name in Jane Eyre is Mr. Rochester who has a very mysterious history in the Caribbean while The Man in Wide Sargasso Sea moves to the Caribbean after living in England for his entire life. Jean Rhys never states that the two men are the same, but the similarities between the two lead the reader to believe it is so.... [tags: Jane Eyre Wide Sargasso Sea Essays]

Jane Eyre and Wise Sargasso Sea
- "Inequitable power relations based on gender and /or class and /or nationality are endemic to the human condition. Any aspiration towards equitable relations and/or social orders requires the undermining of power dynamics and groping towards humane modes of being. Explore in the relation to two texts articulating a clear stance on the issue." In both novels Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, it is evident that inequitable power relations based on gender/class/nationality plays a prominent role within the human livelihood.... [tags: prose essay, Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys]

Creole as a Third Space
- Creole as a ‘Third Space’ in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys’ novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) depicts Antoinette Cosway, a white creole girl and descendent of the colonizers, torn between her white creole identity and her affiliation with and attachment to the colonized, colored people of postcolonial Jamaica. Antoinette is neither fully accepted by the blacks nor by the white European colonizers. She continuously struggles to negotiate between the completely opposing expectations and spaces of black Jamaican and white European culture.... [tags: white sargasso, jean rhys]:: 8 Works Cited

Trapped in the Red Room: A Look into the Mind of the Original Mrs. Rochester
- ... Motivated solely by greed, he seems to be unwilling to let Antoinette have even a small portion of happiness. He had the option to leave with at least half the dowry and let her move on with her life, but chooses instead to keep both her money and mind locked away in the attic of a cold, colorless castle. Regardless of whether this depiction of our Mr. Rochester is canon or not, Jean Rhys effectively makes us despise the new Rochester all by solely changing the point of view. It is with this technique that she so convincingly tells the tale of Bertha Mason as we explore the depths of her perspective and recognize the parallels to Jane’s own life.... [tags: theme, narrative mode, Jane Eyre, Wide Cosway]:: 4 Works Cited

Hawksbill Sea Turtles
- Imagine a world where sea turtles are extinct; did you know that was preventable. The hawksbill sea turtle population is drastically low and if action is not taken they will soon become extinct. Several factors come into play in the extinction of this species; the most evident one is their breeding behavior. Due to the natural breeding behavior of the hawksbill sea turtle and their inability to sustain a viable population, they are going extinct; however, if they were introduced into breeding programs their extinction would be prevented.... [tags: sea creatures, eretmochelys imbricata]:: 11 Works Cited

The Sea at the Daytime and at Night
- The sea was not like anything else ever created. It had a beautifully charming effect on people generally and a relaxing and relieving one on others. Therefore,there are an immense amount of sea lovers. In the daytime, on a hot summer's day, its warm blue moving water, which got its colour from the blue of the sky, was a heavenly enticing scene. The water was as clear and clean as glistening glass, drifting the feelings away to the depth of the magnificent sea. The gentle waves eagerly pushed one another to touch the still smooth sea sand, as if they were trying to say something secret about the sea to the golden sand.... [tags: beach, sea, ]

Deep Sea Fish Adaptions
- The discoverer of the titanic, Dr Robert Ballard famously referred to the deep sea as ‘far more alien than going to mars or the moon.’ The deep sea is one of the largest virtually unexplored ecosystems on the planet; it is found at a depth of 1000 fathoms [1] and is subject to adverse changes in temperature, pressure and light penetration amongst other factors. Therefore as expected fish decrease in abundance, and species diversity. This trend is prominent as in order to survive the harsh conditions of the deep sea, fish need a number of specific adaptations.... [tags: Marine Evolution Sea]:: 11 Works Cited

Santiago in "The Old Man and the Sea"
- Many characters in the history of literature, such as Odysseus were obviously portrayed as heroes and were offered accolade. However, some characters are not easily recognized as being heroic. The old man, Santiago, in The Old Man and the Sea is one of them. The old man and the sea is a novella about an old Cuban fisherman, Santiago, and his three-day battle with a giant Marlin fish. Throughout the novella, Santiago is portrayed in different perspectives. He is tough and refuses to give up at any time.... [tags: Old Man and the Sea, Steinbeck, heroes,]

John Milington's Synge's Riders to the Sea
- Is man ever in control of the natural world. Or are we only ever in a temporary contract with it. We see pictures of towns being swallowed whole by the sea on news, renewing the balance of power between man and nature. Man for years has struggled in its relationship with nature, and at one time attempting to give gifts of sacrifice to control weather or like today, attempting to gain control through manipulative science. In John Millington Synge's tragic realistic one-act play Riders To The Sea he explores the power struggle between man and the sea through the realistic portrayal of the fisherman mentality.... [tags: the power of the sea, story analysis]

Poseidon: God of Sea
- Poseidon:God of the Sea. Poseidon, the great Greek ruler of the sea , horses and the earthquakes. His ancestry comes from the family of the Olympians that roamed the world in 2200 B.C . With the father of Cronus and mother of Rhea and having the famous brother of Zeus. Who fortunately saved him from being ate by his notable father ,Cronus. He was saved when Rhea,” the mother of all gods”, had deceived Cronus into eating a rock instead of eating another one of his offspring (“Rhea”) .Similar to what Cronus he did to Hestia , Pluto , Hera and Demeter.... [tags: Greek Ruler, Sea, Horses, Earthquakes]:: 7 Works Cited

The Sea Mermaid: Manatees
- If a solution is not found, manatees will be completely wiped extinct from the planet. The manatee is a large, aquatic, mammal with two large flippers. The average adult is about 10 feet long and weighs between 800 and 1,200 pounds. Manatees are also known as sea cows; they have a wrinkled head and face with a whiskered snout. The manatees’ closest related relatives are the elephant and the hyrax. Manatees have been on the states endangered list since 1979, but their biggest threats are humans. While some people are extreme manatee conservationists, others could care less about whether this marine mammal becomes extinct, or not.... [tags: aquatic mammal, whales, sea cows]:: 3 Works Cited

Manatees: The Cows of the Sea
- Manatees, or sea cows, are quite different creatures of the sea. Not only do they swim slowly and awkwardly, they tend to have a rather awkward appearance to accompany this behavior. Even though many haweve heard about these majestic marine mammals, few understand everything there is to know about them. There are three main types of manatees: the West African manatee, the Amazonian manatee, and the West Indian manatee. The West Indian manatees themselves can be divided into multiple subspecies: the American, Antillean, Caribbean, North American, and Florida manatees.... [tags: west indian manatees, sea cows, animal kingdom]:: 16 Works Cited

Life Experience of Sea Animals in Captivity
- Anyone who has been to SeaWorld has seen trained whales, dolphins, and seals. SeaWorld guests are entertained by the sea mammals in the tanks, jumping in the air on command by whistle. These tricks draw guests into the park. What may seem to be fun for the viewer, is torture for the mammals. There is a deadly truth behind all sea mammals in captivity: they don’t survive well there. Though sea mammals provide entertainment, they do not belong in captivity. Imagine being at home and then somebody broke in and you were forced, without any choice, to join the circus.... [tags: seaworld, sea mammals, whales, orcas]:: 15 Works Cited

Liability of Vessels for Collisions Caused at Sea: Case Study
- In the given case study a dispute will arise between the four parties to determine the liability of each vessel for multiple collisions caused at sea. In summary, the facts are that the Flipper was crossing the Britannia Straits traffic separation scheme but was not making proper use of the crossing points. The Willie, a bulk oil carrier which was adhering to the scheme, spotted the Flipper and foresaw the risk of collision so the captain issued a series of warnings. The Flipper ignored these warnings thinking she had enough time to pass.... [tags: Civil Liability for Accidents at Sea]

What aspects of Charlotte Bronte's
- What aspects of Charlotte Bronte's What aspects of Charlotte Bronte's depiction and use of the character of Bertha Mason are most clearly illuminated by Jean Rhys' depiction and use of her parallel character of Antoinette. In Wide Sargasso Sea, written by Jean Rhys in the 1960’s, is a radical critique of the context of English Imperialism and male dominated society within which Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre. In order to both expose and oppose the parallels inherent in Jane Eyre, Rhys intertwines in her novel the two reading positions of feminist and postcolonialist criticism.... [tags: English Literature:]

Visions of The Primitive in Langston Hughes’s The Big Sea
- Visions of “The Primitive” in Langston Hughes’s The Big Sea Recounting his experiences as a member of a skeleton crew in “The Haunted Ship” section of his autobiography The Big Sea (1940), Langston Hughes writes This rusty tub was towed up the Hudson to Jonas Point a few days after I boarded her and put at anchor with eighty or more other dead ships of a similar nature, and there we stayed all winter. ...[T]here were no visitors and I almost never went ashore. Those long winter nights with snow swirling down the Hudson, and the old ships rocking and creaking in the wind, and the ice scraping and crunching against their sides, and the steam hissing in the radiators were ideal for reading.... [tags: Langston Hughes Big Sea Essays]:: 20 Works Cited

Overview and Endangered Status of Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles
- Sea turtles; there are currently seven different species swimming in the earth’s oceans. They are marine reptiles that have been around since dinosaurs walked the earth, give or take 150 million years (Texas Parks & Wildlife). And although these ancient creatures have been in the world way before Humans came into existence, it is ironic that all seven species of sea turtles are now endangered because of anthropogenic actions. Among the seven species, The Kemp’s Ridley is the most critically endangered.... [tags: Marine Reptiles, Sea Turtles, Ocean]:: 7 Works Cited

The Muse of History by Derek Walcott
- ... In The Location of Culture, Homi Bhabha introduces his idea of hybridity. He discusses how there is an in-between-ness that arises when we live on different borders due to different cultural influences. He argues that this kind of living in-between multiple identities leads to a form of hybridity, a schizophrenic or doubtful state of mind where there is no longer a specific home, rather the individual has mixed feelings over the fact that nothing is stable anymore. Bhabha says, “[W]e find ourselves in the moment of transit where space and time cross to produce complex figures of difference and identity, past and present, inside and outside, inclusion and exclusion” (1).... [tags: caribbean culture, colonialism]

Characters' Reactions to Death in Riders to the Sea
- Characters' Reactions to Death in Riders to the Sea In "Riders to the Sea" several reactions to the death of Michael take place when each of the individual characters learn of the tragedy and express their grief. The first, which would most naturally occur, is for someone to become extremely pessimistic. The character Mauyra most obviously becomes pessimistic even while she is still not sure of the fate of her son. Even the idea of Bartley leaving to sell the horses makes her nervous, she’s afraid of losing her last son.... [tags: Riders Sea]

The Old Man and the Sea
- Hemingway went to Havana, Cuba in 1944, where he got his idea for "The Old Man and the Sea". There he met a man by the name of Gregorio Fuentes, who for more than twenty years was the captain of Hemingway's fishing boat "Pilar". Navarro in her article says, "he claims to have inspired "The Old Man and the Sea". Navarro tells "but it was Mr. Fuentes's own exploits that were immortalized in The Old Man and the Sea, Mr. Fuentes". The story of "The Old Man and the Sea" is about a old man named Santiago who has to overcome the great forces of nature.... [tags: The Old Man and the Sea Essays]:: 3 Works Cited

The Power of The Sea-Wolf
- The Power of The Sea-Wolf Jack London’s novel, The Sea-Wolf, has many different interpretations. The story can be read as a combination of the naturalistic novel and the sentimental romance, both very popular around the turn of the century. London also brings into play literary naturalism, in which human beings are characterized as just another species in nature, subject to all of Her cosmic forces. The Sea-Wolf fits almost perfectly the archetypal pattern of an initiation story. Depth and interest are added to The Sea-Wolf by successfully integrating these three elements -- the combination of two popular genres, literary naturalism, and the initiation story.... [tags: Sea-Wolf Essays]

Physics of Sea Ice
- Sea ice is frozen sea water. Salt ions in the water complicate the growth of ice crystals, and makes sea ice much more dynamic than freshwater ice. Sea ice covers nearly 7% of the Earth's surface, has a huge effect on global climate, and is one of the largest, single biomes on Earth. Ice is the solid, crystalline form of water, which solidifies at 0ºC. Roughly 9 polymorphs of ice are defined, only one, however, occurs naturally on Earth. This common form of ice is known as ice 1h, and its lattice displays six-fold rotational symmetry.... [tags: physice ice sea]

A Village By The Sea - Anita Desai
- Anita Desai's novel, The Village by the Sea, is a vibrant narration of perseverance and hope in distress. It is a saga of changes and adaptation, a little of evil and more about the goodness of nature and human kindness. Based on true events, it is a story set in a small coastal village Thul near Bombay. The two main characters of the novel are a brother and sister duo, 13-year-old Lila and 12-year-old Hari. They have two young school-going sisters, Bela and Kamal, a chronically ill mother and a good-for-nothing drunkard father.... [tags: Desai Village Sea Book Analysis]

A Deconstructive Glance at Edgar Allan Poe's The City in the Sea
- A Deconstructive Glance at Edgar Allan Poe's The City in the Sea Always mesmerizing, Edgar Allan Poe's poems range from deep and depressing to dark and grotesque. Certainly this is true of his poem “The City in the Sea,” which is dark in tone and ambiguous meaning. What does it mean, and where did Poe come up with his concept. There are many possible answers to this question, and interpretations include the phallic and yonic symbols of Freudian theory and the idea of biblical cities as source material exist.... [tags: City Sea]:: 5 Works Cited

The Natural Spiritualism in Javanese Cultural Religion As Seen in Story, "the Queen in Southern Sea", Nyi Roro Kidul
- The Natural Spiritualism in Javanese Cultural Religion As Seen in Story, "the Queen in Southern Sea", Nyi Roro Kidul A. Background Since religion is the philosophy which attempts to understand the concepts involved in religious belief, the religious believers have to give they report such as experiences as those of being in the presence of God, or as being able to realize a timeless and eternal divine order in the universe (it made clear the concept of the religion). In contrast to what happened to the Javanese people who still believe in what they called natural phenomenon that influenced the spiritualism.... [tags: Queen Southern Sea Kidul]

Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories
- Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer once stated, “Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.” This was a problem faced by Salman Rushdie. After years of suffering from writers block, he overcame his obstacles and published "Haroun and the Sea of Stories". It is not only a story for his son, but a proclamation of the triumph of the writer over the oppressive forces that sought to silence him.... [tags: Haroun and the Sea of Stories]:: 12 Works Cited

The Old Man and the Sea - A Fish Story
- The Old Man and the Sea - A Fish Story The book, The Old Man and the Sea, is about an old man named Santiago who struggles with a gigantic marlin fish. This is a story of his courage, heroism, and strength. In the book, Ernest Hemingway uses Santiago to explore the theme of man and his relations to animals. In this case it is Santiago's relationship to the different fish he catches, especially the giant Marlin fish. Santiago respected, cared, and thought of the fish as equals. The relationship with the fish is shown through many examples and explanations in the following paragraphs.... [tags: Old Man and the Sea Essays]

Free College Essays - Sea Wolf
- Sea Wolf Wolf Larsen was a character in the book who never made it all the way through the book, but he tried very hard. He was a very strong, brutal man with almost no respect for human life. With all the people in the world, one dead person meant nothing to him. He was a patient man and usually kept himself under control. He was surprisingly smart and thoughtful for a pirate who lives on the sea. He loved the sea and knew many things about it, such as how to outwit his brother when he came near Wolf's boat.... [tags: Sea Wolf Essays]

The Qumran Documents (Dead Sea Scrolls)
- The Qumran Documents (Dead Sea Scrolls) The finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls or the Qumran Documents is the single most important religious find of the twentieth century. These manuscripts have revolutionized the entire field of biblical study and have the ability to destabilize the mass of western religious thought as we know it today. For the information contained in these scrolls, include books of the Hebrew Bible that predate the next earlier example by one thousand years. The data found in these scrolls enable us to form a historically accurate reconstruction of the time period formative of Rabbinic Judaism and of Christianity.... [tags: Dead Sea Scrolls]

Advice on Relationships and Creating Inner Peace in Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift From The Sea
- In Gift from the Sea, Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her thoughts on relationships, love, inner peace, and contentment. During her vacation by the sea to relax and detach herself from the hectic outside world, Lindbergh masterfully provides insights to a reader of any age or gender. Her poetic and flowing style allows the reader to easily absorb the themes from her meditations. She warns against the pitfalls of modern life because of what she calls hectic rhythm, as opposed to a more fluid and natural primeval rhythm.... [tags: Gift from the sea]

Themes of The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai
- Themes of The Village by the Sea by Anita Desai The novel, 'the village by the sea' by Anita Desai is about how Hari and Lila struggle for the survival of their family in the absence of their drunken father and ill mother. As portrayed in the beginning of the novel, the opening scene is described to be an unstable environment. This is reflected by the setting of the waves and how they are portrayed to be 'unstable' as the author uses phrases such as 'high tide' and 'low tide' to show the instabilities of life and its changes.... [tags: Village Sea Anita Desai Essays]

Transformation of Humphrey Van Weyden in Jack London’s The Sea Wolf
- Transformation of Humphrey Van Weyden in Jack London’s The Sea Wolf Jack London’s The Sea Wolf is in some ways a philosophical text and a product of its time. The strain it puts on the reader between a social Darwinist and utilitarian perspective against that of a more idealistic one is great. Many times the character of Wolf Larsen is a more consistent articulator of the Darwinian position and seems to always be getting the upper hand argumentatively. However, it is due to a phenomenological outlook on the events presented within The Sea Wolf that the alternative becomes intelligible.... [tags: Sea Wolf]:: 1 Works Cited

Images of Lilith in A Sea-Spell and The Orchard Pit
- Images of Lilith in A Sea-Spell and The Orchard Pit While Lilith's only explicit appearances are in the poems "Lilith" and "Eden Bower," images of her arise in a number of other poems by Rossetti, including "A Sea-Spell" and "The Orchard Pit" (Johnston 120). Considered "minor" poems, very little has been written on either. Of "A Sea-Spell," some have gone so far as to proclaim "it is kinder to the memory of the artist to say nothing. It is the work of a prematurely faltering mind and hand" (Waugh 211).... [tags: Sea-Spell Essays]

Biblical Influence and Symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea
- Biblical Influence and Symbolism in The Old Man and the Sea Many times, stories by Ernest Hemingway have much religious influence and symbolism. In The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, numerous occurrences in the life of Santiago the fisherman are similar to the incidents recorded in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The names of the characters translated from Spanish to English are just one of those many similarities. The characters in The Old Man and the Sea are in actuality, major figures in the New Testament.... [tags: Old Man and the Sea Essays]